The Nursing Needs Assessment Scale for Women with Infertility: Turkish Validity and Reliability Study

Year 2024, Volume: 14 Issue: 4, 1048 - 1055

Tugba Bozdemir , Hatice Yıldız , Jummi Park

https://doi.org/10.33808/clinexphealthsci.1481793

Abstract

Objective: This study was designed and conducted to establish the Turkish validity and reliability of “The Nursing Needs Assessment Scale for Women with Infertility (NNASIW).”
Methods: Originally developed in Korean, the scale contains 18 items, and a sample of 262 infertile women was included, multiplying each item by 10. In the analysis of this methodological study, second-order multifactor Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), independent samples t-test, split-half reliability analysis, and Cronbach’s alpha were utilized.
Results: The CFA goodness-of-fit values of the scale were: χ² = 221.326, χ²/df = 1.72, AGFI = .89, CFI = .98, GFI = .91, RMSEA = .052, and NFI = .96. Factor loadings for all variables ranged from .39 to .99, and they were found to contribute significantly to the scale (p<.001). Statistically significant differences were noted between the lower and upper 27% groups for the total score and sub-dimensions of the scale, which originally had four sub-dimensions (p < .001). A high, positive, and significant correlation was found between the two halves of the scale (p <.001). The overall Cronbach’s alpha value of the scale was 0.88, with sub-dimension alpha values ranging between .70 and .99.
Conclusion: The NNASIW is confirmed to be a valid and reliable measurement tool for assessing the nursing needs of infertile women.

Keywords

Infertility, nursing, care needs, scale, validity, reability

Ethical Statement

This study was approved by Ethics Committee of MaltepeUniversity, Noninvasive Clinic Ethics Committee (Approval date: 05.02.2021; Number: 2021/04-07)

Supporting Institution

The authors received no financial support for the research

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